Urban Security Initiative: Earthquake impacts on the urban ``system of systems``

Conference · Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1999

OSTI ID:350858

Maheshwari, S; Jones, E; Rasmussen, S

This paper is a discussion of how to address the problems of disasters in a large city, a project titled Urban Security Initiative undertaken by the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The paper first discusses the need to address the problems of disasters in large cities and ten provides a framework that is suitable to address this problem. The paper then provides an overview of the module of the project that deals with assessment of earthquake damage on urban infrastructure in large cities and an internet-based approach for consensus building leading to better coordination in the post-disaster period. Finally, the paper discusses the future direction of the project.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Assistant Secretary for Management and Administration, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 350858
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-99-778; CONF-990124-; ON: DE99002211; TRN: AHC29921%%43
• Resource Relation: Conference: 1999 conference on the applications of remote sensing and GIS for disaster management, New Brunswick, NJ (United States), 16-24 Jan 1999; Other Information: PBD: [1999]
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

29 ENERGY PLANNING AND POLICY
URBAN AREAS
EARTHQUAKES
DAMAGE
EMERGENCY PLANS
NATURAL DISASTERS
PUBLIC UTILITIES
TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
BUILDINGS
NETWORK ANALYSIS